Mozilla Drumbeat is a global community of people and projects using technology to help internet users understand, participate and take control of their online lives.
I’ve done a bit of head-scratching over what one possible Drumbeat project aimed at K-12 education might look like.
If you have an interest in helping K-12 education make better [...]
To help spread the word about the Jetpack for Learning design challenge, I worked-up a design for a Jetpack for Learning t-shirt for Second Life avatars. But that didn’t really do justice to Sean Martell’s nifty Jetpack design.
So… since almost anything is possible in Second Life, an actual flyable virtual Jetpack seemed like a [...]
The Mozilla Foundation invites you to help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore new possibilities for learning online as part of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge.
For this Design Challenge they are looking for innovative Firefox add-ons that turn the open Web into a rich learning environment.
Jetpack [...]
Mark Surman and others at Mozilla have been mulling over Drumbeat, an effort to promote awareness of the benefits of an open web. In his most recent blog post, Mark asks “what concrete things could Mozilla and Drumbeat do to support people creating civic and social value on the web?” …and he has posted [...]
Mozilla Labs has a plug-in for the awesome Firefox browser that helps them collect information about how people use the browser. As with all things Mozilla, the Test Pilot plug-in is open. It shows you all of the data it has collected and lets you decide whether or not to send it along to [...]
There are some projects over at Mozilla Labs that just might make it possible to turn Firefox into the “killer-app” for K-12 education, both in North America, and around the world.
JetPack is a set of tools for extending the browser using open, standards-based technologies like CSS, HTML, and Javascript.
Prism is another labs project that lets [...]
Need to explain to your school board why you need to “recontextualize experiential multiple modality instruction” or how you plan to “synthesize metacognitive functionalities” in next year’s curriculum?
You need to